The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF ►THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We inec rt in another column a letter from Kingston, in Upper Canada, from a gentleman well known to us, a eoung man Or education and property, a native Of the pro vines., who has travelled through various parts of Europe, and whose fortune would afford him the means of residing in any country be might prefer; but who, after marrying in England, has returned to pass his days and rear his family ut his native land. His letter we publish as an interesting document, and we request any readers of the MO nin , b Chronicle who may have given even partial credence to the statements so unscrupulously advanced at the Crown and Anchor meeting on 'l'hursdsy last, to consider whether the .pinions of such a man as we have described be not entitled to more weight than those put forth by the hireling agent and advocate of a Canadian faction, pretending, as we believe unwarrantably, to speak the sentiments of the whole French population of the lower province, and who, In their now openly-declared rebellion, will, rve also be lieve, find themselves followed by still fewer dupes than they expected. In England, notwithstanding the generous sympathy always felt for the weaker arty, especially if that party have any ground for complain. tog of oppression, we trust the real merits of the Canada questioa are beginning to be generally understood, and we refer with great satisfaction to the documents ordered to be laid before Parliament, and from which we continue our extracts, as in every point corroborating the question which we have all along presented to cur readers. By the way, we observe that in Mr. Roebuck's tour of agitation from Westminster to Marylebone, be is not in his itinerancy followed by the Parliamentary joints of the tail which he flourished so successfully at the Crown and Anchor. Is it that Messrs. Leader and Grote have begun to discover that in supeorting his anti-national interests and connections in Canada sZiey are likely to lose the support of their own constituents ? If not yet, we think it likely that these gentlemen, and every other Member representing a corn nierciel constitcency, will, in due time, find that they are considered to 'be acting in disregard of the in terests of the trading commenity, and that these interests, as well as those of the holders of property, will be against them. Mr. Roebuck, at the Circus meeting, sneered at the signature of " No Traitor" adopted by a correspon dent c. f one of our Contemporaries, and says that a more true d e e;;nation would be that of " A Canadian Merchant in danger' .?1* bankruptcy." Well, and what then ? Are C ana di an m erchants to be exposed to the risk of bank ruptcy in order i.. 4 at Mr. Roebuck's salary from the Ca nadian House of Ai_temblY may be paid? A Canadian merchant is a British suble'et, employing British shipping, purchasing British manufactCres, end giving employment to those very working men to wieetu Mr. Roebuck's sneer was addressed. It may be true that pert of the commerce with Canada is protected by impolitic duties on Baltic tim ber ; but there is a wide difference between the legislative removal of impolitic restrictions, and the w2.'olesale destruc tion of property occasioned by the interruption e'f the indus try of flourishing provinces, and the devastation neces sarey attendant on civil war. While the Tory Papers are yeii's leg against Lord Gosford for his forbearance towards the French Canadians ; on the other hand, a portion of the Radicals, ind away by false analogies, and the ambiguity of general terns, seem disposed to reprobate the recourse which has, tholieh not till the last extremity, been had to coercive measures. Had coercive measures been resorted to at the period when the Tories think that vigour ought to have been displayed, !he whole of the French popula tion might have been alienated, Papineau and his party would have been only in appearance checked, and when the favourable moment came, they woliM have been supported by an exasperated people, by the sympathy of the world, while the Government at home would have been paralysed by the strong displays of public opinion in their behalf. If, however, which we believe to be the ease, an ungenerous ad vantage has been taken by the Papineau agitatorsof theigno rance and credulity of a generally well-disposed population, and if, after all, the habitans have only been inveigled into insurrection in the Montreal district, the forbearance of the Government can hardly fail to produce a good and a lasting impression on that kind and single-minded race. Were the French race generally determined on indepen dence, we could look forward with no satisfaction to the continuance of a state of things in which the Government could only be maintain e d by su p por ti ng t h e m i nor i ty aga i nst the majority, while to leave the parties to themselves would be to ensure a desolating civil war. Forbearance is preg nant with hope, but the unavailingviolence committed by the Tories would have excluded all possibility of beneficial Go vernment. On the other hand, had Government remained with their arms folded after Papineau hadraised the standard of rebellion, it would soon have spread throughout all the districts ; and instead of the attempts which have been put down with little difficulty, and at no great sacrifice of life, the British settlers would have had to contend for their very existence with the whole French po pulation. That portion of the Radicals who have been so unthinkingly led to adopt the views of the partisans of Mr. Roebuck, will, we trust, become now sensible that if Ministers had deserted their duty at so important a crisis, to the well-disposed of the French Canadians and to the British settlers, the consequences would have been cala mitous beyond calculation. Humanity would have had to deplore numberless sacrifices in a sanguinary civil strife, and the memory of mutual cruelties would have laid the foundation for irreconcileable feuds and animosities. We have always contended that the revolt in Lower Canada is rot consecrated by any great principle pervading society —the only justification of resistance to Government—but a partie? attempt of a part of the population only, for pur poses equally condemned hay wisdom and humanity.— elforning Chronicle. Without entering at this moment upon any general o r elaborate review of the official papers relative to the affairs of Lower Canada which were laid upon the table of both Houses of Parliament at the close of the last ante-Christ. mas session, and have just been delivered, there are one or two points which call fur immediate, however, brief, remark. The tendency of any one political theory, when it gets ab solute possession of the mind, to defeat and wholly super. sede the use of a man's natural senses of sight and hear ing, with regard to all objects passing bodily before his eyes and ears, is here apparent. There is Lord Gosford, who went out upon a "conciliation" scheme to Lower Canada in the spring or summer of 1835, who totally and even ludicrausly failed in every attempt to soften the rude and fierce moroseness of his " liberal" friends in that " most loyal" province ; who, at the very outset of hie embassy, had the King's Commission of Inquiry flung in his face by the refusal of that grand potentate, M. Papineau, so much as to recognise its existence ; who, in return for a course of cringing supplication unwor thy of a Royal Commissioner. or of a British Nobleman, was in •very instance frowned upon, sneered at, and in sulted ; who knew that, instead of complying with any one of the moderate and humble applications made by him ( Lord Gosford) in the name of the Imperial Government, M. Papineau and his myrmidons in the house of Assembly had resolved to act in all things upon tlio spirit of that pa triotic advice transmitted to them from London—namely, to " concede nothing, but do what they could to harass the King's Government ;" who saw, in defiance of huma nity, good faith, public principle, political morality, and common decency, the officers of the Civil Government left to starvewhile the publicchest was full of money; who found that measures were proposed, secret practicescarriedon,and denuneiationsutteredwhichcouldnootherwisebemadeintelli gible, bu ton the hypothesisthat a revolutionary movement was actually designed by the Canadian " Liberals ;"—here, we say, is Lord Gosford, with all these rubs andscratches fresh upon him—with all these mortal mementos as it were burnt into him—who could not discover during two whole years, nor before the month of September, 1837, that the proceedings of the Papineau gang " bad evidently a treasonable ten dency"—that " to attempt any thing of a teinporizing character would be weak and jiaile !—that we could now make no terms with M. Papineau, whom we must either put down, or submit to let Lim put us down, for that there was no halting between two opinions." Why, then, what bad been the whole genius and character of Lord Gosford's mission but a " temporizing," " weak," and " futile" mission --a mission f or " ma ki ng terms with" M. Papineau— a y, f or kissing his feet,—a mission not " halting between two opi nions," but not having a single opinion of any kind, or on any one subject, to limp upon,—a mission willing, not to make terms with M. Papineau, but to accept any terms that he might vouchsafe to grant, if public opinion here in Eng land, and indignant and wounded feeling among the British colonists in North America, had not rebuked the subservient imbecility of Lord Gosford, and stopped him on the brink of that precipice down which M. Papineau's contemptuous and wily malice would have rolled him ? In a despatch, dated the 6th of November last, a little more than two months ago, Lord Gosford makes the notable discovery that move troops were wanting, and a:ates that he and Sir John Colborne, after stripping the uppar piovitice of " as many troops as possible,"—that is through Sir F. Head's somewhat chivalrous generosity, of every soldier it contained—had written to Sir Cohn Campbell of Halifax, for first one regiment, and then a se cond, to make battle, if they could, against the faction of Papineau Loyalists in Lower Canada, where it ap peared moreover that he had found it necessary to arm the Attorney-general with instructions how to dispose of certain " foreign" (French !) " military officers," wh o h a d been for so me ti me d r illi ng , organising, and preparing for active service those loyal habitans on whose fidelity to the 13:itish Government the simple Earl Gosford bad a few es e .eks previously reckoned, averring that he " did not expect any serious commotion !" He concludes the dispatch in question by s t a ti ng , th a t "the grievances which were at first put forward by the leaders of this party would seem to have been mere pretexts to clothe deeper and (Luker designs. The mask has now been thrown aside, and the people are excited to disaffection and re hellion by the most artful and unfounded representations ; and even if all the demands of the Assembly were fully and immediately granted, they would, I begin to think (I), lie insufficient to satisfy the views of those whose evident aim is not to reform, but to destroy, the established Govern ment and British connexion." And all these things Lord Gos ford "begins" to suspect, after more than two years' close and hitter i xperience of the machinations of this same rebel and traitor faction. Why, was there a political schoolboy in England that did not know, before Lord Gosford left the country, what Lis Lordship now begins to imagine ? Did Lord Gosford never bear before lie sailed from Eng land that Papineau wanted, what no British Government could g7ant—coocessions which amounted to that very free and sovereign independence of Great Britain," which the talking and flying traitor Mackenzie, told the Re publicans of Buffalo, the other day, was the sine qua non for which he and Papineau had seduced their unhappy followers to rebel ? If Lord Gosford was incredulous or perverse upon this subject, the Whig Ministers, who tempted him with the gilt bait of a nominal Governor-Gene ralship over the Canadas, were no such blockheads, we can tell him. Lord Aberdeen had projected a commis sion to redress grievances, having an eye to the real interests of the people of Canada, but having at the same time a wise distrust of M. Papineau, if not a thorough contempt for him, and a determination never to be influenced by his importunities. This com mission of the Conservative Government was also pre pared in utter indifference to the mischievous practices and manceuvres of those English agitators of the Hume and Leader school, who were perpetually dabbling with the f►c titious turbulence of the Canadian demagogues, and pat ting their treasons on the back." The policy of the Con servatives was to redress wrongs, not to coquette with traitors ; whereas the Whig-Melbourne Commission was no less sordid in its motive than ridiculous inits means. By a make-believe show of conciliation, which the Ministers themselves knew, though Lord Gosford might not, that they could never realise, they bought the votes of some two dozen democrats, who had wriggled their way into the House of Commons, and thus added something to their precarious tenure of a measuring cast majority at home, while they made poor Lord Gosford their Punchinello at Quebec, with M. Papineau to pull his wires. This was but sorry treatment for the " conciliatory" Governor, who was thereby made, not a messenger of peace, but a dry-nurse of civil commotion.—Tinies. When the opponents of the Ballot affect so much ab horrence of the duplicity and treachery which it would encourage, by affording electors an opportunity of pro mising their votes on one side and giving them on smother, they seem to regard the fulfilment of an illegal, unjust, and unconstitutional private contract as imposing a greater moral obligation than the conscientious discharge of a great public duty. The object of the franchise is avowedly to afford those to whom it is extended a means of express ing, through representatives in the House of Commons, their opinions on public events, and on the principles of Government and general policy. Any attempt to interfere with, control, or pervert the choice of as elector, by cor -t or coercive agency, is a violation of the first and most sacred rigs; of representative government. Every man making or access:2" to such an attempt is a traitor to his country and its ConsiituL"' Social relations even should not be allowed any influence in the exercise of a function in which are involved the rights and ii;:f rests of the whole community. In fulfilling his direct contract w - ;...h his land lord, and reciprocating any kindness he may receive from him with respect and gratitude, the tenant discharges every I claim which can be legally or morally made upon him. No indulgence, kindness, nor generosity on the part of the landlord can establish for him the least right to direct the tenant as to the manner in which he shall bestow his vote. The franchise is the essence and emblem of public liberty, and he who exercises it at the dictation of another is a slave—more degraded even than ho who is not admitted to the suffrage at all, as he becomes a party to his own thraldom and debasement, while the other has never been admitted to the rights of a free man. The electors of Great Britain are as sentinels and guardians of the public interests, and to argue that if under pressure of circumstances any of them should be tempted to promise to desert his post, therefore every means should be taken to exact and enforce the fulfilment of such promise, is as much opposed to every principle of morality and justice, as it would be to give a soldier over to the vengeance of an enemy, because, after making a pro mise under undue influence to betray his duty, he subse quently found means to evade such promise, and faithfully discharged his duty. It looks vastly fine on paper, and ' sounds very magniloquently in a speech, to dilate upon that open, manly, and independent spirit which should ever characterise Englishmen ; but these rhetorical flourishes and artifices find but little corroboration in the corrupt, pro fligate, and debased traffic which is made of the franchise in the polling- booths. These vaunters of English inde pendence are the very men most solicitous, by the prevention of the Ballot, to preserve to themselves the means of bring ing every species of undue and corrupt agency to operate on the electors. It is not the independence of the electors, but their servile and base subjection to oligarchic domina tion, that those clamourers about the bold and open spirit of Britons are most desirous to maintain. There cannot be a more bitter mockery than to talk of independence to men who are frequently driven to the poll like creatures incapable of using their own judgment on subjects in which their interests are most vitally involved. From this degra dation the Ballot is proposed to emancipate them ; and, as if it were more demoralizing to vote in secret as one's own conscience would dictate, than openly under the corrupt or tyrannical direction of another, the Ballot is denounced as tending, to debase the national character. A moro false and slanderous allegation was never made. It is the public prostitution of the elective franchise that is attended with more bitter and shameless degradation than the most evil ingenuity could possibly effect under the system of secret voting.—Morning Advertiser. On the 26th of December last an elderly gentle man was found strangled in the Champs Elysees. It was but on Thursday that the corpse was recognised as that of an Englishman of independent fortune, whose son-in-lacy has a public establishment near Corbeil. Lectures on Temperance have been delivered during the past week with much success at the various villages around Lincoln. TILE OYSTER FISHERIES.—At the East Kent Quarter Sessions last week, a case of much importance was decided relative to the Milton Fisheries. The title to the fisheries has already been established both in law an equity, and various injunctions have been obtained at the suit of dif ferent lessees against the Milton fishermen to prevent them trespassing on the beds. The oyster fishery is of great im portance ; a capital of 10,0001. being employed in stocking and storing the grounds with young oysters and brood. Since these injunctions h ave b een grante d , they have been several times infringed upon by fishermen using trawls, an instrument not fitted for oyster beds, but which might be used for other kinds of fishery, though very injurious when applied to oyster fishing. The proprietors, therefore, were compelled, in order to protect their fishery, to indict Richard Thompsett, and three other fishermen for unlawfully using the trawl, all of whom were, after a very lengthened investigation of the case, found guilty, and were each sentenced to two month's imprisonment in the gaol of St. Augustine. It is reported that the result of this struggle betweon the occupiers and the dissatisfied fishermen will put an end to the injurious resistance which for a series of years has existed against the proprietors of the fishery. On Friday night, three prisoners effected their escape from York Castle, under circumstances of an extraor_ dinary nature. Their names are Ellis Nicholl, late of Halifax, charged with committing a burglary at Southowram ; John alias Joseph Hutchinson, a native of Kirton, in Lincolnshire, and late of Sheffield, charged with robbing a warehouse at that town; and Wm. Mason, a labourer, of Sheffield, charged with horse stealing. The former prisoner was transported for seven years ten years since ; and had a cut on the back part of his head and ulcers on his right leg. Either through real or feigned illness, these men were placed in the hospital, by order of Mr. Anderson, the surgeon, as sick prisoners, for whom the new or women's prisons are appropriated. The men were in one room ; and at eight o'clock they were locked up for the night; but early the following morning it was found that they had escaped. The walls of the building are of brick, three feet thick, which they had forced through by great and persevering labour, and thus obtained an entrance into the yard. Previous to this they had torn the quilts of their bed into shreds, which they had knotted together, and having fastened a brick to the end, one of the prisoners had scaled the stone wall, which is of great height, and assisted his acecomplices in the hazardous undertaking. When they arrived outside, they must either have crossed the river Foss, or gone round by the banks near Castle Mills Bridge, both of which must have been 'exceedingly dangerous. —Halifax Express. . _ _ A most extensive robbery was committed a few days back, at Hooton, the residence of Sir Thomas M. St inley, Hart., when cash to the amount of 1,2001. was carried off under the most sing u l ar circumstances. The baronet, it ap pears, who had been out hunting, deposited, on his return, his silver wine flask (his usual companion in the chase) toge ther with a sum of money in the drawt-r of his escruitoire, which, locking, he placed the key in his private apartment. On the following day, finding that the keys had been removed and left on the chimney piece, he searched the escrutoire, and found that four hundred pounds in bank notes; had been taken from one drawer, and that four hundred pounds also in notes, together with a large sum of gold and silver, were taken from another. Lady Stanley, being informed of the robbery. b- came apprehensive, and hurrying to her boudoir, found that her desk had been broken open, and cash to the amount of one hundred and fifty pounds taken away, Information was immediately given to the Chester police, and on Wednesday, a woman who had previously resided in Sir Thomas's family fur five weeks was taken into custody. No one else, as yet , has been apprehended, although many persons are strongly suspected as having been implicated in the transaction. The flask on one side bears, engraver, the crest of the family, a stag's head, the name of Sir Thomas M. Stanley is at the botton ; the top of the flask when taken off forms a cup. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,Sze. &c. &c. LONDON,. TUESDAY, JAN. 9. Number Dividend Prier of per CANALS. per 'Shares. Ann um. Paid. Share 1,706 7 per cent. Aalston and Oldham.... Average 971. 151 s. sh. 135 1.082 4!. Ashby-de-le-Zoucli leverage I 13/. s li. 65 1,260 Basingstoke 'OOl. eh. 5 1,005 5/, Brecknock and Aberg,menny 151 y, sh. 100 5,000 1-10 sh. 91.65. Uirmingliara, 1-16th share Si'. & 71!. 220 4,000 Ditto ar,cl Liverpool Junct...1251 oh. 10!i pd 2i) 600 ts/. Bridgewater and Taunton -.IDOL sh. all I'd 64 400 4/. Chelmer and B:ackwater 1001. eh. 102 300 481. Coventry '";01. oh 7(0 4,545 c,roydon 2,1519 41. Os. Dudley lOO/. eh. /3 600 7!. Derby lOW. sh. C's 20000 3,574 31. Elle,mere and Chester Average 1231.8 k. 77 '231 401. Erowash 1001.00. '7OO 1,297 28/. Forth end Clyde Average 1t0.2.180. to. 610 11,900 12!. Grand Junction lied. sh. 225 2,849 i 11. Grand Union li el. eh. 25 1,50 n Grand Surrey ........ _., 'lO,OOO/. 4/. percent. Ditto (opt io n a l) L oan lOO/ 70 3,696 Grand Western 600 /31.124. Sel. Glarncrganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 749 10t. Grantham 150/ sh. 28.1 1,231 V. Os Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 37 100 Kensington lois oh. all pd. 10 2 5,3'23 11. 55. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. lbs. 10d. sh. 24 2, 1 97# 201. Leeds and Liverpool 100/ sh 6411 54.4 131. Leicester l4O/ sh 225 1,897 41. 101. Leicester ATM Nortkampton...Aver 13/. !Os. 91 2,400 101. Monmouthshire lliOLsh. 29 , 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 100/. •h. 200 SOO 251. Mersey and Irwel I lOO/ sh. 165 MOO 11. 10e. Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 52 247 17/. Neat h 100/.0. 325 1, 7 66 301. Oxford 'ON. oh. 530 2,400 i/. Peak Forest Avenge about 781. sh. 104 1,418 12s. Ilezent's (or London) Ayer. 331. 16s. PAL sh. 16 6,669 1. per eent. t.ochdale Nverage 841. eh. 111 500 8/. Shropshire.- )25/. sh. 138 800 IL 10e. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 151 i 3,600/. 4i percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10e. s 4. (li 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. ah. 710 500 81. Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 1.50 300 91. Stourbridge 1453. eh. 3.30 5 , 6 4 7 2f, i•s, Stratford-on- Ayt:ll ...Average 791. 9s. bd. eh. 50 533 121. Swansea 100/. sh. 23) 3,762 11. 15e. Severn and Wye and Railway-Av. 351. sh. 26} 2,60ci eh. 32!. Itts. Treat and :Mersey, i share lOO/. sh. 560 8,1 4 /4 Thames 121,1 Medway...Aver. 191. M. Id. eh. 2 11, . 000sh1 15L Warwick aid Birmingham 100/.lh 05 ;a h , 980 I It. Warwick and rapt lOO/.0. 183 6,000 4/. os, Worcest sr and Birmingham-A.4.781.85. sh. 714 1,000 255. Wilts an.. Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. •...2 100 31. Wyrley and Essington 195/. ah 75 /se Wisbeach 905 1,. Wey and Arun llO/. sh. 221 DOCKS, 2,600 k ISp. a Commercial OOO/. sh. 56 1,065i5h 498,66711. 6 per ct. East India Stock 107 3,238,310 V. 565. p. ct. London Stock 53}. Ditto Bonds 951 1,380,000/. 411. p. et. West India Stock 95 2,0.09 'I/. 10s. Bristol 88,3241. M. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amoents ll3 1,352,752 41 percent. St. Katharine stock 10) 500,000 4i per sent. Ditto Bonds lOO 200,001 t er cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 9Ol t Shoreham Harbour 2.200 ........ Deptford Pier .01. sh. 11/. BRIDGES. 1,600 Ifs. Hammersmith 5O/. sh. 221 7,031 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. C 1,700 11. 154. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5Ol. 'h. 141 5,000 Waterloo lOO/. sh, 3 11,000 18s. id. Ditto, Old Annuities of u/. (101. pd 19 6,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 7/ 40/. pd 161 60,000/, 54 per amt. Ditto Bonds III 6,941 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 103.1 d. sh. 18 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,008 3110 s Albion 5001. sh. 501. pd $ 1 ) 1_ and 15s. Alliance,British A Foreign ISO/. sh. 101!. pd 13 1001. sh. 51. pd 61 501. sh. V. pd 131 14 :07 00 000 r 6: i pe P . e p r e ;: s i n h t t . .. l D A i t t i t a o s , Marine 1,000 fah. 14 Birmingham hire 250!. sh. 55/. pd 1071 20,000 Al per sent. British Fire 250/ sh. 501. pd 42 12,000 51. per cent. British Commercial 504 el.. 5/. pd 61 5,000 51. per rent. Clerical, Meth.. al, Sec. Life, ICol.sh. 2110 s pd 4 1001. sh 10/. pd 42 4,000 21 Ifs County 20,000 I. Eagle 300 [ I P" sent.( liconorais like lOOO/. eh. 2504 pi 875 alai 501 be. 2,271 225. percent. Nuropean Li.o 001. sh. all pd 22 60,000 2s. Ditto, New ... 20/. eh. 2/. pd il 1,000,0084 71. per el. Globe St ock 155 00,000 M. Guardian lOO/. sh. 071! pd 33 40,000 Ss. 04. Hope 3,400 W. 7s, rid. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 1261. 7,.:09 Is. Imperial Life 1001. eh. 104 pd 10 1 2 3 :0 453 4/. 3 p l er lo ce i sat. l ic n e t t m Fire nity Marine ...... ...... ...1 0 0 543 1 1 ..5p h ...81 1 . 1 pd ini 1 1 2 9 .$4 Ditto Life 79 1001. sh. 10/. pd 251 10/00 #d6, Law Life 0 5/ sh. 124 l(W. pi! 151 251 sh. 111 10s. pd 151_ 50!. eh. 2/. pd 111 Ss 041 0 01 sh. 0/. pd 17.011 1/. Provident Lite 100_,000 im. ?tock Life 004 sh. 14 pd Stock„, t2l 3 00 2 7b) :, 50 g 011 2 4/ 1 ; Pj p le ! C e e e n n t i. V'T :L an t ddid et °7l t 4 P : T Sl F .hi i i i: t. ei''4l/i 14 per cent. Royal Exchange 6,0041 4 per Pent. U niv ersity Life lOO/. sh. Si. pd si nte Kin lom Life 2l. pd 10 01T 4 60,000 4 Per 8130 t. I. " ' CK BANKS 25,000 s p ercent AgriP. 4p/. sh. 401. •- pd aJ Austrahvi3 , ..... UP ,1)0f) 444 (..,-urorp, of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 14 1 1 0 0 :0 %8 1 1 . 0i m e r r c c e e n n t. L B B i a r n m k in o g f h lit a i m r n m ß in a g n h k . llll4 tt0500 5 C. 50 4 1 011 .h . . 10 4 : pd pd 1 1 5 3 1 3; : o o g o o : pperx x : 1, 404 1 24 , , , , ,.,..,..V . ,-.emiarter...l l oo oo l l : , 1 1 1 . . 2rl pd *1 1001 sh. 10/. pd '2'3 T 5,000 piverpoet oor 4 ern* rso,ooo 7 1 per awn& MancheJfer 4. 1 4 .. V r 1 1001. sh. 15/ pd 28 Discount o . ototottotr?::: ‘„,..„. „,,„ 7, 27 20,003 7 per cent. Manchester...is . , ~ 0?? ?V 7 , :, , t P 0 20,000 Provincial Bank of Irefanse.„lool. sp. .44 pit co 20,(.00 National Bank of Ireland „,5°4 ph 1711. pd It: 10,000 19000 it per crat . Y o tt u io c.es na o l P r ; t o i v ir i e ncial Eng. -1 5 0 0 0 , 1. s o l h i. , 3 1 , ( 1, 1 :' ,4 1 , d 3 3 0 2 6,003 leper cent. Hampshire.„ GAS LIGHT AND 430 >Q COMPANIES. 2,500 11)3 6d Bath 5,000 British . . aut, sti. ilf, pd 21 504 { 5l Be.wil.e 60ntl Ditto Provincial vaz. sb. 10 4 94 sro. sli. 08 VA 51106 Birmingham.? 4,2541 2/ Os Bristol ..„„ „ 2o' sh 36 1,500 3i 10s Brighton 750 31 105 Ditto, New 2,471 44 per cent. Brighton General .. 24 , 0 Pk 4ii 0 17 4,000 4/. Continental Cansolidated lOOl. 42140 fOi) 1,000 101. City 01 London lOO/. eh, ail p 4 100 1,001 61. Ditto, New 1 !,000 41. 10s. Equitable .... 501. pd 301 10,1'00 24 per cent. Imperial 44,4.0” 5O!. sh. 45 800 5/. per cent, Isle of Thanet lf,l. eh, P t pd 20 9,350 61. per cent. independent 3O !. 811. ei p 4 01 9,000 IL per cent. Plicenit ,„ , 51)1. sh. 39/. pd 2/1 1,600 4/. per cent. Ratchet' , lOO/. sh 80/ pd 54, 4,000 . 4444 ,.,. South Petrupoittati 8,200 5/. per cent, United General 5Ol, sh. 461. pd 24 ~.. 240 24 per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50 400 10/. per cent Wakefiald 2 5/. sit; 421 12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 125. Ditto New 800 Yarmouth 204 ph. 181. pd WATER WJEKS. 4,800 9s. Birosifiiibun 25/. sh. 251 pd tli 1,414 6/. East Lontion „, 100/. sh. 1 45 5,500 21 Ws Grand Junction ....krerage 41/ 13s. 4d. sh. 54 - :1,000 21. Kent lOO/. sh. 4 3 372 10 4 Li+vrpool Ilootle ''pi, sh. 3 - 6 1,500 2/ lOs New Kt.ar London Bridge Water Annuitias 58 8,488 11 1 56 Manchester and Nalford lOO/. sh. 53 1,000 4 per cent. South London lts 1004 sh. 97 4,004 41, West Middlesex ....Average i',;.14 12s. 911. sh. 88 1,360 1114 e Yolk Building Co. Lessee Prop 1004 ph. 33 IRON IIAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby ...... 20/. pd ilrf 9,590 Birmingham and litooMter l2l/, pd 2 1 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thais Junction ,°,l 15,000 Bristol god Exeter 10(1/. sh. 10 lid 'i 060 Calcutta :Lod Saugur 5O/. 41, 21. kt 0 1 7,500 ...... „• Cheltenham and G, Western...loo/. sh. 71/ 1 1 3,000 0. 12,000 8,000 Dubli,i and Kilkenny 1004 sii. 2i pd 0 ,5 80,000 Eastern C.,m.ties 254 sh. 34 pi 1 Grand Junction 1001. sh. 954 pd 181 Great North of England 25,030 G reat Western lOOl ; h . 5 51. pd 603 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1140/ 1 ,1 100 21000 Hull and 'elby 50/. s h . 10/. pd 5 0,000 Leeds and Manchester 1004 ph, 5/ . pd 14 2,100 31 per cent. Leeds and Selby Ills ..V. 4 1 1,5 00 1/,;,p, Leicester and Swannington ....fill. sh, all pd 71 ! 5,109 10 per cent. I jverpieol and Manchester-10(41h. WO/. pd 19 " 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 91 36,0491 London and Brighton sot. all. 51 pd 1 1 12,001 London and Blaciorall 5O/. sh 31. pd ‘'e 10,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/, pip. 201 . pd 1$ 25,000 London and Birmingham -.1004 sh, in / A 161 Ditto Quarter Shares 51 pd VI 20,e00 ~.. ..... London and t .. ./nitliampton ....WI. sh. 50/ pd 114) ... ...... Ditto ditto New . ....54 pal 9 7,000 . 4444 ..,. London and Croydon Trunk 20i. sh. 2 0 / . p d 1 „ 7,000 Ditto Scrip l4/. sti, 2/, Icl 8 „ 12,000 Lond on Oriind Junction... 5O/. s h . 5/ . pd 04 10,001 Manchester and 111 , Misiiham 70/.sh. 51. pd 41 North Nlidland,„ . 1001. oh. 25/. I A 2 4 1 Northesn and Eastern ~.• ..... 100 /. oh. n/. lid 2 ! 2,600 Preston and Wyre 504 sh. 304 141 28 , 1i 0o r X 0 0 ° 16/: . .p . .t . .( . .r . ..5 . f . !nt. I 00/. sh, li r ,", :S‘lYSsou'ar:ktki::aneoE:l;;;4:fiee:d: E ast e r n t ;Dira h 'adnrd N iGi l i nDr : l e : a etv ;: n d : I 5c (1)4 . 5 '2 0 10'1 .. 2 5 0 1i 1h. : 1 6 °2 / 1 . : i ll i d d d I'6 l ll 1,400 6,000 MINEg. ~, -1 8,000 ..... ,000 11. Ls. A Iten 154 oh. 124 105 pd 144 1 11 ,001 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, Isis. 5/. pm.... 1004 oh. all pd Oitto Subscription ....................... 0 .51 poo 2,000 10,000 14 1 1 ' 0% B E T.3 l" z n il ( L ' ii 1ni . ; . 1 1 ;2, 51. pm...... 1 J3t 1 . : 5 1 h h . 4 1 / 1 . , iil 27(2/15 6,0 0 11,00 Ditto St. John Del Rey.... ..... 204 sh, 04 pd 3 1 10,000 BON var Copper Company 20/. sh. 201. pd 5 10,000 Ditto gcrj, , ,,,, ICI. sh. 84 pd 3 24 1/ 4 0) British Iron 5Ol. ,h. 50/ pd 35 0,000 gritisli Cot per Cats Branca C.Wonga 10,060 11 8,500 .„ 2.0 2 ,L 5 1 31 ' }(l o C.'° : lPg r ' l iti e mais r l a ir: l a s;in i l as i lg. s A l. ss P oc in i . ation i .: s so) - 5 ` 5,1 1 . 0 1/ 01 1E .I . ho . 1 : si s h2 : 1 1 1 : . 1 . 1. : ,1 410 ! s li i: 1 : 4 1 5 )0 11 1 : 1 11 4 1 I . .: : . 1 u pcti p ( I) di pd ll I p x 0 1 i i I I 1 2 81 114' 30,000 Polberou Ccnisols . i... 2 . 6,153 3,000 i'' R u l e e n : i lld a e j l:' 3 ( t E:o c i t i a r,:l) Y nregi p s m tere .. d ,..4 .. ol. sh. a:i pit ' .. : 1 . 11,500 Dart. Scrip ...... Ditto Loan Notes ................ 14# 30,000 Low l.: :d i t t o t t o n. Nri w ktel i 7 t h iSvN ß 'S r i ' o Pr n .1 z i e .:U. T .:1 ii N t . ... 5. ..... " . .......7 7. 5g 1.:5 ; 1' . . is . ‘. l s .d. . .2 42 : LITER A: 1,000 1,500 London University 1004 sh. all pd 231 ;00 Russell s 2 5 es. sh. p King' College MISCELLANEOUS. 1004 pd 26 10,000 15.4. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh '20.11. pd 4 1 6,000 4!. per cent. British American Land Comp any „ 911 . li , 7-,„ 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 26/, / r i d oi 200,000 SI per cent. Upper Canada Loan ....................... !). City Bonds, 4 per cent ............... ..., ........ ,f 4 15,000 14 lis. Gersaral Steam Navigation _154 v i,:ti . "o: t mo d 101. per cent. H11,15011#6 1317 Stock ......................... l' u 21 5 11. London Coin .Sateooms ......... Av. 'Xi . s 8,000 Caoutchouc Cpany ....,„...25/ . 0 ... , il. r), 1) 1 . 19 New Brunswick Land Comp:ivy .„ . 43/_ pd 11 11 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest Soc.-1001. sh, 111101, p a 12 .„, 2,633 61. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 704 pa ge 4,000 1 hames Tunnel 50/. sh 11 • a Pd 6 10,000 Os, Van Die.ner.'s Land 1004 eh. 17/. pd 94 . LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. DEC. 15. 1 837. BANKE4. 4500,00 U. 0/. p. et. Flan': of Scotland 93/. as (41. sh. 411 pd Igo/ . 1,000,0X1. 5t p. ct. Royal of Seotlar 't lOO/. sh. all 1,.1 jag 500.011. Sp. et. British Linen Company 100/.5h. ; , 111x1 -.3, 4. 3,000,00(1. ed. p. et. Couamercil 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 17 . 5 i/. . i. .sfo o sak • . ri. '.., lions! . lOO/.sh. 101. pd Id/ . 3,00 ,1 ,0001. 11 p. ct. Glasgow Union 'sol. sh. 504 pd 1,000" W. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland .•.,....2001. Ph 30/. pd sgi. INSURANCE COSIPANIEIi. 25(1.0005h di p. ct. Scottish Union 2Ol. sh. 1/. pd , 1 , - ,5011 04 p. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 13/ pu . 1110,1100 ap. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101. sh. all p d fq F, 50,004 .(i p, ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd I t L 1 /n 1 sp. et. ,C.:Jefionian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. p d le/5r 5,0u0 ep. ct I t hiu tira i p , ; 4; - . ; ... lOOl. sh. 10/. pal 14/10. 100,0011 3! p. et. West of Scotland '' ,n,, t , 1! 1,f,11. pd i, 0 8 _ 511SCELLANEUTIS."' ' r 4,810 „„,„„ F.clin. 2111 i Was Un. eanai 50/. uh. all pd 2.1/ . Mr Vocated 91 , /. sh. all pd 65/. 5,400 5 pas' Aent. . ,b„ 04 - 8 I*#i.:4 Water 25/. sh. all pd : 41 C4lAn UT!? C.C9Vicel ?rtrt sh. all 1 4 4 34 1,0003 h 15 per cent. Shotts lion F051P.01.2. '•ip r t x. :sr i 0,000 S per cent. Edinburgh & Leith ufass . an. ' a ),(, 8 , 1. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. alt pd 1.114, 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas ~ 5 4 sh. all pd 61/ 750 7! per cent. Leith Coal (las 20!. sh. all pd 451. 1,206 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...so4 sh 551. 3,000 5 per pciah PoiNblelzp Company.4sl. sh. 91. IA 101. CANADA. PUBLIC MEETING AT EDIABURGII. ( Abridged from the Edinburgh Observer of Tuesday.) Last night a public raecting was held in the Cowgete Chapel, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament, and ad dressing her Majesty against the further prosecution of the war with Canada. The chapel was full but not crowded, — there being probably 1,500 persons present. W. D. Gillon, Esq., M,P., presided. Mr. GII.LON, on taking the Chair, begged they would ac company him in a short retrospect of the history of that colony to which their attention was now more particularly directed. In 1791, by an Act of the Imperial Legislature, constitutions had been granted to the Colonies of Upper and Lower Canada. These constitutions were a mimic represen tation of the Constitution of this country. They have a Go vernor to represent the Kin ; an Executive Council to repre sent the Privy Council of this country; a Legislative Council ire place of the House of Lords ; a Legislative Assembly in place of the House of Commons; —and he begged of the meetin g particularly to observe, that the same control over the public revenues of the colony was entrusted to the Legislative Assembly as the House of Commons pos sessed at home ; and that further, by successive Acts of the Legislature, especially the 18th Geo. 111. cap. 12. and Ist and 2d William IV. cap. 23, they were invested not only with the laying on of the taxes, but with the appro priation of the revenues when collected. In process of time this Constitution, which, like our own, had been supposed to be the beau ideal of all human inventions, was found not to work quite so well in practice. The Legislative Council, which stood in the place of a local aristocracy, was found to consist of individuals who had neither the property, the cha racter, nor the station, befitting met, invested with such im portant duties—who were the mere tools and nominees of the Governor, and, on all occasion, intercepted from the colony the benefits of British legislation, whenever that legislation was beneficently exercised.—( Cheers.) But that the meet ing might not take these matters on his single affirmation, he begged to tefer to the words of Mr. now Lord Stanley, im mediately afterhis return from a visit to these colonies. [Here Mr. Gillon read the extract, in which Mr. Stanley described the Legislative Council as the root of all the evils which had taken place in the colony for the last ten or fifteen years.] These were the expressions of Mr. Stanley, then a Whig in opposition to the Tory Government in 1629. It was not his (Mr. Gillon's) business to account for the diffe rence of opinion subsequently entertained by Mr. Stan ley, the Whig Secretary for the Colonies in 1834, or by Lord Stanley, one of the leaders of the Tory opposition in 1838. ( Hisses.) But, at the period to which he referred, that indi vidual had just returned from a personal observation, he must be supposed to have been correct.--( Hear, hear.) It was asked what were the grievances of which the Canadians com plained. They complained that the streams of justice were poisoned at the source ; that the judges were appointed by the Governor during pleasure; that they were mere tools for exe cuting his will ; and a portion of the petty and contemptible clique who tyrannised over the people. They complained that all useful reforms were arrested in their progress by the Legis lative Council; that Bills for purifying the administration of justice, and for establishing national education, had been re peatedly thrown out; in fact, that every measure having for its object the amelioration of the condition of the people, met from them a steady resistance. They complained, that by the formation of the British American Land Company, valuable lands were disposed :of at an inadequate price, and that the price which was received, instead of being appropriated to the uses of the Colony, nad thereby, as in America, exempting them from taxa tion, were by the Governor thrown into the military chest. But the master grievance of all remained to be detailed. It would be observed, that the Canadians had gone on petition ing the Legislature of this country in respectful terms during a period of nearly 18 years. What was the consequence ? Their grievances were admitted, but redress was withheld. Tired out at length, they resorted to the admitted consti tutional privilege,—that of stopping the supplies,—a course which, by the way, had becu warmly recommended to them by Mr. Stanley.—(Hear, hear.) We were in the habit in this country, of talking very big about stopping the supplies, and he recollected in 1835, when the Peel Govern ment came into office, a proposition of this nature was recommended by his friend Mr. Hume, which he (Mr. Gillon) should have been glad to support,—(Cheers)--but the Whigs who expected very shortly to come into office on the strength of the Irish Church question, objected to such a proceeding, and it was not adopted. The Canadians, however, who were simple men, and unaccustomed to the war of faction which goes on in this country did adopt such a course. What was the consequence? The Parliament by the resolutions of last spring, authorizod the Governor violently to seize on the revenues of the colony without the consent of their representatives.—( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Gillen) asked whether any ukase of a Rus sian autocrat, or mandate of a Chinese Emperor, could be a more palpable insult to a nation calling itself free : or whe ther the pages of history exhibited an example of more open and unmitigated tyranny ?—( Cheers.) He did not justify the course pursued by the Canadians in resorting to arms. Per haps had they waited a little longer, the people of this country —and it was only through the people that great and beneficial reforms were ever accomplished—(loud applause)—might have been awakened to a sense of the wrongs of the colonists, and have demanded or the Government, to whatever section of the aristocracy they might belong, justice for Cwnada,— ( Loud cheers.) It was said that the demands were made by a portion of the population exclusively of French origin. This !so a ow ? attempt to delude the public mind. Thor.; , were prelsebry seareely any individu living who bad ever bavn a subject of France. For nearly 80 years had the Canadians b-en the subjects of this country, and they only asked to partici patt, in the benefits of British institu'ions. But it was said that the Canadians were weak and defenceless, and could therefore be calmly put down. This was an argument which he trusted would find but little response in British bosoms, —(Cheers.) But on this subject we might learn a lesson from exiorience. The same had been said nearly severity yeare ago, when we first began to tax North American colo eists without their own consent. A long and arduous struggle had ensued, which had resulted after the effusion of torrents of blood, and the addition of one hundred millions to our to heard it said h na tional debt, i n th e tr i ump h o f N ort h Amer i can i ndependence, and th e es t a bli s h ment o f t h at great and flourishing republic, which now s t retc h e d i ts w id e-spread dominions front the At lantic ecific,ar(ide knew notfromTexa with what to the St. t u a t r, i ; o re r n i t e y e s He had , that 20,000 men were to be added to our already over. grown ;tending army. This would be, no doubt, a powerful military force; but who was to pay for all this? He (Mr. G.) was hopeful that the results of the meeting this night— that the expressions of the sentiments of the citizens of the most enlightened city in the empire—would be the means of putting a stop to an unjust, unnatural, and expensive war; and of settling on principles of strict and impartial justice a quarrel in which, while defeat, or even prolongation of the contest must be attended with disgrace, victory could bring in its train neither honors nor advantage.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. TURNBULL proceeded to contend that, ac cording to the words of the resolution which he was requested to move, that the present war with Canada was in opposition to the dictates of humanity, the principles of religion, and the true interest of the community ; and in oatablishinr , b those points, h e d rew a f orc ib le and et r ecting picture of the horrors of war, both in reference to the cruelties which it entailed upon the body, and its deadening and withering effects upon the mind. Mr. CRUICICIIIIANK4, jun., George-street, seconded the resolution. Mr. BURTON, in proposing the seventh resolution would start with the principle, more than forty years ago maintained by Jeremy Bentham, that colonies were an evil to a country. Much might be said as to the British colonies, about the evil being done, there being rights involved which we must pro tect, and our colonies spreading civilization and christianity. These were questions on which he would not enter, and would content himself in the present case with restricting the prin ciple to this, that when a large colony:, such as Canada, ex pressed discontent, whether on good or bad grounds, with the Government of the mother country, it ought to be left to govern itself, or seek another protector. Mr. RUSSELL moved the next resolution, that the petition to the House of Commons be entrusted to Joseph Hume, Esq. ; and read an article from a newspaper, which he stated was from the pen of Mr. flume, strongly condemnatory of the po licy of Ministers with reference to Canada. Mr. HowlsoN (of the Society of Friends), seconded the resolution. Mr. W. TAIT rose to move the next resolution, and said— The attempt to coerce our former colonies, now the great American Republic, and the present attempt to put down public lihorty in Canada, are as much alike as any two cases are ever likely to be. We endeavoured to tax the old colo nies without their own consent. We now appropriate, with out consent of the Canadians, the taxes raised by their Legis in fact, rob their exchequer deliberately by an A c t o la f tu c r u e—ve cur own Parliament. ls this proceeding less an infringe ment on the liberties of a colony than the former ?—( No, no.) If there is any difference between the two acts, the l a St is the worst of the two. While Ido not justify the Canadians in resorting to arms in vindication of their unquestionable rights, much less do I find it possible to justify the attempt, on the part of our Government, to crush them by military violence.—( Cheers.) However, civil war has commenced; an d the question now is. how is it to be ended ? What is to be done? I concur, with all my heart, in the resolutions which you have passed. Grant the claims of the Canadian; gove rn them with their own consent ; or part comp any on as tit icable terms as may be. Mr. TAIT then moved the ninth resolution, that the petition to the House of Lords be sent to Lord Brougham, reminding the meeting that, in that House Loid Brougham h a d stoo d alone in opposition to the infamous coercive resolutions —that he had given each of them an emphatic No—and had recorded a s olemn pretest against all of them. ilfr, Tuomas IRELAND seconded the resolution. Mr. Jonx SPITTAL moved that an Address to the Queen be entrusted to Lord Melbourne for presentation at the ear liest opnortunity. Mr, DARLING, W. S., seconded this resolution, which, like all the others, were carried by acclamation. Thanks were afterwards voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. Sir Thomas and Lady Munro left Farrance's Hotel, Bel rave-street, on Snnilay, for Bri g hton. Supliftimt,—This mighty lake iq the largest body of fresh water in the known world. Its length is 480 miles, its breadth 141 miles, and its depth 900 fathoms. Its waters are remarkable for their unrivalled transparency. About 1,000 streams empty themselves into this lake, sweep, ing in sand, primitive boulder atones, and drift timber, which sometimes acellrillilate, so as to form islands ill the estuaries, (ADVERTISEMENT. _ _ THE WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIA- TION. TO THE WORKING CLASSES OF EUROPE, AND ESPECIALLY TO THE POLISH PEOPLE: — BRETHREN,—In reply to the Polish Democrats who recently addressed 115, ace beg it might be understood, not cnly by them, hut by the working classes of Europe ; that while we are zealously labou-ing to diffuse a knowledge of true princi ples among our own brethren, we are not unmindful of that great principle of Democracy that " all mankind are brothers." And though the perversion of truth and justice has called forth the exclusive feelings of the few, to conspire and rebel against the happiness of the many ; yet when knowledge shall have expanded the intellect of mankind, they will assuredly perceive that all the nations of the earth have, in reality, but one brotherly interest. Possessing this conviction, we feel persuaded that every ef fort that can be made towards eradicating those national pre judices and bieofteil feelings, which the selfish and despotic rulers of mankind have implanted and perpetuated fur teeir ad vantage, will tend towards that great consummation of national and universal happiness, when equality of rights shall be esta blished, and when " men shall love one another." And we know no batter means of effecting this righteous object, than by availing ourselves of those great rights and privileges of humanity, our counts ) men have achieved through persecution and death, and which your oppressors have un justly deprived you of, or prevented you from obtaining—we mean the right of investigating and inquiring through the means of public meetings, open discussions, and the press (stamped and trammelled as it is), which is the most desirable form of government—the best mode of instructing the people —the most economical mode of producing wealth, a id the best means of its just distribution—and of causing all the corrup tions and anomalies of Church, State, and individuals, to pass in review before the great tribunal of public opinion, from which all power should emanate; and to which alone it should be responsible. True it is, that the friends of freedom, throughout the Con tinent, have just cause to remember etih feelings of execration the base conduct of the Government of England, in secretly undermining or openly opposing every attempt they have made to check the inroads of despotism, or to advance the cause of Democracy. But it should be remembered, that the same rampant spirit of Aristocracy, which by a corrupt legislative assembly, a hypocritical money-loving priesthood, and a stand ing army of soldiers, placemen, pensioners, and expectants, keep the working millions in ignorance and subjection ; have been, and still continue to be, the persecutors of liberty through out the world ; and not the reflecting portion of the people of England. But, brethren, we think we have discovered the great secret of their power—it is our own ignorance of society and of go vernment, our prejudices, disunion, and distrust ; and we feel that our enlightenment, union, and confidence, will best dis solve this unholy compact of despotism. Fellow- Workmen, have you ever asked yourselves by what powerful spell are the productive millions of Europe held in subjection to a puny, insignificant number of human beings ? If you have not, begirt now to inquire ; and we think that reflection will convince you, that the people themselves have raised up and continue to support those few idols of wealth and power, which constitute at once their fear and adoration. The foolish aspirations after power, the lust of riches, and the servile fear diffused throughout society, prepare mankind for the concentration of their own feelings, in the power, pomp, aid pageantry of a Crown. Who—instead of questioning the choice and fitness for of fice are the first to bow before the antiquated name of royalty —to admire the splendid show and littleness of folly—to swell the slavish train of flatterers, who, by their cringing, make and mould the tyrant ?—who but the giddy unreflecting people? By whose labours are the citadels and fortifications of des potism erected, and all the waste and profligrtcy of courts and camps upheld ?—The people's, who glory in the means which keep them slaves. Where, but from the ranks of labour, have the despots of Europe raised their fighting slaves to keep their brother slaves in awe ? Who, but the people themselves, form the warlike phalanx round their tyrants' thrones, and glory in the privilege to wear their slavish trappings, and at some minion's bidding drench the land with blood ? Who, but the people, toil from birth till death, and thou. sands pine in misery, to support these idle few in ad// their op. pressions and debaucheries, and think it just to do so ?—nay I bow before the hireling priest who impiously declares that God has ordained it l Democrats of Europe—you as . pire . to place liberty upon the throne of justice —to establish the laws on the basis of equa lity—and to awaken the dormant faculties of mind to appre ciate the social and political happiness of our race—be assured, that though the power of despotism can check the progress of knowledge, it is the ignorance of our brethren which generates and fosters the despot. What thousand ineffectual efrorta of freedom have been crushed by ignorance ? HOW many millions of generous hearts, panting for liberty, have green sacrificed by the allied despots of Europa l becleed up as they have ever been with the ieno ranee and fanaticism of milli ons ? When young freedom first broke her bonds of servility in France, and proclaimed th e eternal rights of humanity, ho w f ew a her enthusiase'ic sons could appreciate the blessing When in noble daring she stretched forth her bard to emancipate Italy, to enfranchise Germane, end to raise up Switzerland, from her political le thargy—what were the powers tt,ikkt paralysed her generosity ? The ignorance and pNtitliecs of the masses; subjecting them to be the slaves of priests arsdnobles, and the blind instruments of the weatttl eed eitle.huntingv minions of despotism. The 4( altar toed the throne" formed the magic spell by which Eu repeau despots kindled the fie= of loyal fanaticism, and, the blind confidence repn;ed 10 art' ambitious chieftain, rivetted anew the cheine of kingoraft and priests:raft: Her subsequent struggles for freedom have again been fruitless of benefits to those who bled to effect it—the courageous few who broke the dominion of legitimacy in France, and who sought to esta blish equal rights for all, were constrained by the prejudices of the many in favour of royalty, to set up the idol of wealth on the ruins of privilege. The strange infatuation and foolish fears which cause the present electors of Franco to support a soulless tyrant in power, who despite of oaths and protestations, has sacrificed one by one the liberties of their country, and now mocks them with his boasted alliances with despots—afford another pre sumptuous proof that principles are sacrificed by ieno ranee ; or that conviction of mind has yet engendered de termination of purpose to expel such perfidious tyrant from their soil. The brave Belgians, touched by the electric spark excited by the heroes of July, united in subduing one species of des potism to fall the disunited victims of another. Their pauper King, by exciting_ national prejudi c es ag a i n st D u t c h men , b y a corrupt press, and a system of German espionage, has suc ceeded in nullifying their revolution, and in keeping back the tide of political improvement—the work he was set by Whigs and Tories to perform. In turning to Poland, the land of Kosciusko, what, let us imquire, was the curse that withered the principles of her ancient liberty, and hastened her downfall ? It was the curse of privilege. It was the prejudice of caste, the offspring of iguoraeee, she source of political and social degradation, that peralized the enthusiasm of the generous few who sought to free their country. But it should also be remembered, that the nobility of Po. land, by diplomacy, intrigue, and domestic despotism, were the Immediate or accelerating cause of her subjugation. Taking advantage of national prejudices, by holding the mil lions as property inseparable from their seal, they destroyed the only effective energies that could resist the desolating progress of Russian barbarity. When the news of her recent struggle called forth the sen pathy ()revery friend to freedom, what was the reason assis:ance was withheld them? The people of France had foolishly pros trated their liberties before their Citizen King—the prototype of Nicholas himself. The English, charmed with their Sailor Idol and his reforming Ministry, lauded and admired their pacific policy their successors, very pacific when despotism is crushing the liberties of a country, but vigorous and warlike when liberty has the chances in her favour, (as their present policy in Canada testify.) The Russian tyrant thus secure, and openly encouraged by the despots of the Continent, recklessly pursued his victim—not a voice was raised to cheer, or an arm to defend her—Poland was even tu illy conquered—her sons have been persecuted and scattered through the earth, and her daughters have become the reward of her ferocious spoilers. Heavens I grant that her children may gather such seeds of democracy in their exile, as at no distant period may be planted its their cherished country, to produce the fruits of national freedom and enlightened bro therhood. Passing onward to the German and other despotic states, what let us ask, has generated their iron system of injustice ? Why are all the powers of each state (the laws. revenues, Church, education, and the press) vested in one mail ? Evi dently because of the ignorance of the multitude; an enlightened people never :would submit to despotism. Whence came their soldiers, spies, and informers, but from the ranks of the peOple ?—and who would consent to be such miscreant tools of despotism, but the morally depraved and mentally ignorant ? It has been the enlightened few in all countries whose gene rous efforts to improve their species have been frustrated through the cowardice or servility of the masses; and Leen Made to bleed on the scaffold, to pine in the dungeon or be come wanderers through the world, , Need we revert to Hanover, where the prejudice in favour of hereditary sway has enabled a Tory chieftain to set aside constitutional rights, and play the tyrant with impunity ;—and shame to the servility of that country'—the conscientious pro fessors of Gottingen have been banished at the Royal roan date, because they would not break their oaths to enslave their country. Think you, if the intelligence and courage found emong the students of that city pervaded the multitude, such infamous tyranny would escape the justice it so highly merits? I-i Italy, where liberty has stamped i mmorta li ty on her very ruins—where every step recalls the greatness of the past to mock the littleness of the present—the multitude (slaves to priest or prince) are insensibl e to the lesser.. The ardent few, who, brooding over their illustrious forefathers, catch the in spiratiens of freedom, are, by the supineness or treachery of their brethren, made the victims of Austria, or oi the petty princes who are the jackals of hi s power. Were° ITALY, like the young in all countries, where knowledge has enlightened the understanding, is virtuously resolved in favour of flirted, s but the old sins of ignorance, prejudice, aill fa i retieisits, dif fused among the masses, form dil a rr-Illi* theftprogressee. a barrier to thei e freedom, Throessheet the Continent the efforts of democracy haee ever been checked and bli g h ted by the same retard'esg'eause. The Greeks shook off the yoke of Terkey k the despots of Europe united to give there a child to rule them, and England the means to uphold Ilia despotism. The Spanish democrats rose against the onion of p r i ests and neblee, and proclaimed the Constitution of 1812, and abolished that retarding curse of just legislation, a privileged house of nobles—our rulers and yours, through the ignorance of the multitude, have intrigued to re-establish it. Under the plea of fighting, against bigotry and ebsolu'ism, our rulers sent tht it binds of ignorantassassins, to enable at:other set of plunderers, worse even than the former, to keep bAck the prog.es of freedom. And by their well-organized s ; stem of falsehood, too successfully imposed the belief on popular credulq. - But the republican insurrec. tiuns at Cadiz and all the principal towns in favour of the Constitution of 1812 (which were suppressed by English soldiers and sailors). give the lie to those who contend that they Were sent there to tight in favour of freclom. Similar deonstiatioos in favour of liberty have beet) crushed in Portugal ; and that by similar mentis—provino, that though the despots of the world may quarrel for territnry or plunder, they are cordially united to keep the poople in . subk.etion. Fellow-producers of we.dth, seeing our oppressors are thus' muted, WHY SHOULD NOT WE, TOO, HAVE OUR BOND OF BkOTHERHOOD AND HOLY ALLIANCE? Seeing that they are powerful through our ignorance, why should not we unite to teach our brethren a knowledge 9f their rights and duties? Perceiving that their power is derived from our ranks, why should not we unite in holy zeal to show the injustice of war, the cruelty of despotism, and the misery it entails upon our species ? Be assured, brother Democrats, that the success of our prin.' ciples, and the consequent happiness of mankind, will best delKnd on our union and knowledge. We must not rely on the mere excitation of the multitude to condemn bad men or measures, or to change one despot for another—we must la— bour to diffuse- such political, social, and moral informatiots among them, as shall enable them to found their institutions; on principles of equality, truth, and justice. And what man can look around him and witness the govern— ments that any ways approximate to those principles of liberty, and contrast the comfort and happiness of the inhallitanto,, witht those founded on exclusive power and privilege, witt...out being, prepossessed in their favour ? Those of the Cantons of Switzerland, where universali suffrage is established, trades, manufactures, and agriculture combined ; in spite of foreign intrigues and persecutions are blessed with intelligence and happiness in proportion as they are free. The republic of America (cursed as it is with rem naats of royal dominion,) is a beacon to freedom, and even the inhospitable shores of Norway bear witness in favour or democracy. Let us, therefore, .brethren, cultivate .feelirtys of fraternit9 among nations, and brotherly union in our respective countries. Let us not be so ignorant as to allow ourselves to be conve%-ted into soldiers, police, or any other of the infamous to , ds, by which despotism is uph e ld and. our brethr en ens l ave d . Let us be prepared to make any sacrifice in the dissemination of truth, and to cultivate feelings of toleration between Jew, Catholic, Protestant, or Dissenter. Let us respect the con scientious belief and opinions of each other t knowing how much depends on the education we receive, the books we read, the conversations we hear, and the Government we live under ; l et ea leave persecution for opinions of every kind to despots, and resolve that henceforth it shall not be found in the ranks of labour. The organs of Government, at this moment, are endea vouring to weaken our sympathies, by exciting our preju dice against the French Canadians. The prrty who seek to keep Ireland in subjection, seek to excite oar feelings against Catholicism from the same motives ; therefore, let u be as sured, friends, that all those are the enemies of the people who seek to oppose that great Christian precept of " love and charity," With the view of generating inquiry among the masses, and stimulating the few to renewed exertions, we have stated what we conscientiously believe are the great obstacles to human liberty. But not let our enemies believe that we think our brethren less competent to exercise their political rights than those who now possess them. No we regard thp frax chise as Clebest of saoolmasters, and we point to the intelli gence of America and Switzerland as proofs of the correct ness of our opinions. Wu remain, your fellow-labourers, in the cause of truth and justice, the Members of the Working Men's Association. Signed by the Committee in their behalf, WILL Isaacs, Type Founder, JOHN CLEAVE, Bookseller, THOMAI. WHITE, Hatter, HENRY MITCHELL, Turner, RicirAtua CAMERON, Brace-maker, Jams* LAWRENCE, Painter, THOMAS IRELAND, WarebOUSCTIMII, JOHN ROGERS, Tailor, WILLIAM DIXON, Surgical Instrument-meter, JAMES JENMNSON, Engraver, ARTHUR DYtiON, Compositor, ROBERT HARTWELL, Compositor, HENRY HETHERINGTON, Treasurer, WILLIAM LOVETT, Secretary, 6, Upper North Place, Gray's Inn Road. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WgEK. Per Quarter. BlandtOrd %rigg Wheat. Burley. Oat, IS 041111, Peaoe. R. .. 30 31, 23 24 S. to B. 21 2.5 18 Q 6 16 24 29 la 20 VO to 20 23 27 19 28 22 29 20 23 27 22 28 18 28 a. tq, 4( 42 b 4 44 8. t 4) S. Chard Huntingdon —....... Long Sutton--. Louth 33 40 38 4N 30 34 31 42 30 32 41 43 35 42 38 41 ynn— Newark 30 32 38 - 32 24 Nottinehairt l'<qerborough Plymouth Pontefract,.~,..., Slealool Uppingham Withee)). - 43 41 43 32 44 30 32 32 n 4 -- H 4 30 34 38 25 92 `A 31 25 33 31 35 42 90 34 - 42 36 38 24 30 - - • LIVERPOOL CORN.MARKET, JAN. 9. The importation of Grain from Ireland and coastwise con tinues to be very light. Flour and Oatmeal, however, are in good supply. This day's market was well attended both by dealers and millers. There was a scarcity of new Irish Wheat of superior quali ties, and there being a lively demand for this description, and, also for Irish red, nearly all the samples offering were disl3o"7, e d of, and an ad vance h as b een esta b l i shed of 2s. per 701 4. since Friday last. Old Irish is likewise 2s. per 70lbs. de, .rer, but the sales were not so extensive. Irish and Scotch cjarley was in middli ng request , an d t h ere was an enquiry for r ..;; nglish, b u t at present there is none in the market. Flour was in better request, and realized 6(1. to Is. per sack on F (Way's currency. Oatmeal also brought full rates, but Oats w eve heavy sale, and rather lower. WiikaT, English, White, per 701 t) - Red .. .. .. .. ..,...... 8 8 8 9 Scotch, Welch, and Manx •.. ................ .. ... 710 IS Irish, White ........................................... g 2 8 6 4 -- Red • ............................................. 7Si 710 Foreign OATS En lish Welsh .................................... 8 3 9 3 Iris, g h , , and Seutt•ii, lier 45111 " 6 3 2 - ........................................ ... Foreign ................ , tAr.Lay, English, hlalti:ig, per lnip. quarter 52 0 35 - Scotch and lrisli, per 601bs. - BEANs, English, per Imperial 8 0 9 quarter 42 0 45 0 Irish, grc, 33 0 37 0 - Feedinft Pkask, English, per Imperial quarter 3sl 0 40 0 --- VGieign e Fi.oVii, English, per :2801 b. 49 0 • .....,-- Irish . OATMEAL, F.aglish and Irish, per 2.401ib g 4O 0 41 0 23 6 25 INI , IAN C',III N , per 4404 - 36 U 4 0 , i 0 RYE, , •.er Imper.al quarter NIAL,'S, per Imperial quarter I frIPOItT OF GRAIN col the Week en di ng Jan 8 Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Oatmeal. Qrs. firs. Qrs. (Foreign, 111 - 18.1 Irish, &c. ' 4 eks.l toad: 4,573 9,662 616 - I 10,7i0“ 12.397 DEVIZES COHN Per Sack. s al. s. d. First Wheat.... 3O 0,;:to 31 0 Second t7 0 :20 0 Third If3l Sacks of Wheat 601(11 28 0 at the avera ge of MAKKE l'.—Jan Per Quarter. s. 4. s. d. Barley 24 0 to 37 I Oats 2O I t 7 Beans (per sack) l 0 t)• 3 0 Flour (per bag) 43 0 4i 0 Bread (per gall.) I 0 LEEDS COItN .14 Arti,E If. Jan. 9 Wheat, Norfolk and Stittiilk„ tint},. It, -- York. and Linc o ln. 60th. Marley, Norfolk and Stitliilk ... 30:. to 3.15. ~., - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding 245. to 255. L'... !leans Oats, I'otatoe 295. to 3 Isj .."' ---Mealitig, For. Dd. toll( Eng. 10 , P,' I. to 12d. per stone. Shelling '. to 28s. per load. Raveseed, English, 9.1 s to 24/ F*reiirii, 24g ti , 231. per lost. CHELTENHA I'er Bushel s. d. to s.d %%Meat Marley • 3 0 4 6 Oats 3l) 411 Beans t'ease Hay CI. Os. t< M MARKEIS. I Per lb. Mott.n Veil Pork I.amie ,o GI. 10., Ihr ton. di. IC t. fS 7 0 7 71 0 8 bi SOUTHALL CATTLE MARKET.—Jan. le. The supply of Beasts, Sheep, Calves, and Po r k ers, to this day's mar. ket was moderately good. There was a moderate attendance of tewn soil country buyers, and the trade was dull, at the following price r per stone et 81b. to siik the °Bats:— Beef ;t1 utton 3 8 4 I Pork 3 4 tt feasts, 309 - ; Sheep, 3,•2•25; Calves,6u; Pigs, 51. A small portion •f the supply left the nun, ket 11116014 i ROMFORD M (e los. el. t• Keel' 1 8 4 is Veal Mutton 4 u 4 8 Pork Suckling Calves, to 325.; Quarter old Store Pigs. 13, to 21s. Mdch OM's, with their small Calf, )2/. Os. to lat Os. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull 'MET. —Jan. 10, .....—,—... LEWES 51 Alt KET.—Jan. 9. Beef Mutton 3lO 46 I Pork S 6 4(i A tnoderate supply; the trade with prime Beef and Matton rather hris k.but otherwisedulL LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, J. g. The Cotton trade here ass in a more improved state this day, and several sales were made in American and Brazils, at slightly higher rates ; a fair amount of business was transacted, there being about 2,500 bags Fold. JAN. 10, The business effected this day was to pretty fair extent, and prices were firmly maintained, notv , ithstanding the late a% rivals, being fairly under offer, and holders still parting `l;ith their stock very read',ly. The entire transactions am0.,,, t to 3,000 bags ;-.4.#100 American ; 150 Pernarn, 9s 9 3 4 . ; 100 Eg yr ttitn, 91; Maran 50 wham, ; 100 Suro_ . si. 61. LADIES' GOLD W ATCHES.--- A variet, a excellent and earefull ci0,114 Watches, many of them i n . accordance with the latest taste, with Gold Dials, Jewell%kA,"ic. Y F .,nished Ladies' Second-hand , are offered for selection, price from Six to Eight Gninet.„; each, at I'. COX SAVORY'S, Watch maker, Citilti AtKl 'Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doors from Qieeehu,:ch-street). N.8.--Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. DIED. At Brighton, Mary Dowager Lady Musgrave, relict of the late Sir John C. M usgrave, of Eden Hall, Cumberland, aged 77. ondon: Printed and Published by 11 , 1URDO YOUNG, of N a. 112, Strand, H The Sus Offiee, No. 112, Strand, in the count/ Z l liddlesez.—Friday, January 12, 1838. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1838. -